Winter update - latest brews and flood news

Mole KriekCatherine Stark

We'll be open again from Saturday 11th June and have some new stock for you to enjoy including the first release of our annual Smokin' Bagpipes, a fresh batch of Black Inca and our latest sour, Mole Kriek. Our trading hours during June and July are 11am to 3pm Wednesday to Sunday.

We've just put our chocolate brew Black Inca back into our online shop, as well as our raspberry-infused Razzamatazz and Leggett IPA (which finally has a proper label!). ELF, our extra special bitter brewed with Ella, Leggett and Fuggle hops, will be available online from this week too.

We're brewing Willie Warmer today which should be ready for market mid-July. Meanwhile stocks of Fuggled Porter and Stark Raven are getting low. We're planning another batch of Stark Raven during winter but Fuggled Porter, once sold out, won't be available again until autumn 2017.

Many thanks to Kerstin and Bruce at the Railton Hotel, who have been carrying our stock while we've been closed for a few days cleaning up after the Tassie floods hit us on 6th June 2016. They also let us do our laundry there while we were waiting for our washing machine to dry out. Also thanks to Paul and Nat who turned up at daybreak to help with "damage control" during the flood; and to Paul, Sandy and Martin who've spent two days cleaning up after the flood when we should have been brewing.

Thanks also to our mail order customers who have waited patiently for our postal service to be resumed and apologies to visitors who were unable to visit us onsite this week.

The flood through Railton was minor compared to our downstream neighbours at Latrobe and elsewhere in Tasmania. Our thoughts are with everyone who has lost loved ones, property, livestock and income this week.